Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Denmark and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ajijia Myrayebe to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pylon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roger Hodgson,
Negative Approach,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moss Icon,
Suicide,
Donny Hathaway,
Kerri Chandler,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Evens,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Stockholm Monsters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Visage,
Absolute Body Control,
Morten Harket,
The Cramps,
Kayak,
E-Dancer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Standells,
The New Christs,
Monolake,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Victims,
Dark Day,
David Axelrod,
Tres Demented,
Rod Modell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Shuggie Otis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Reagan Youth,
Minny Pops,
The Trojans,
Yusef Lateef,
Soft Cell,
Sonic Youth,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Lightning Bolt,
Ice-T,
Slick Rick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Godley & Creme,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fortunes,
Little Man,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris Corsano,
Talk Talk,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.